I often combine many things here and do use the word " chat " liberally as I feel it is like being face-to-face with you and that I am chatting in an unedited, unscripted fashion thus more relaxed and intimate and revealing. I want to tell and share through words and pictures the stories behind things almost casually. I hope it is heart-felt. I add when and where I am to fix them in my time.

Here the owner pours for Michel Dumas, and me ( Anthony Quinn ) back in 2013 some of his excellent Gruner Veltliner dry Austrian white that comes in a liter size bottle, is a great deal, and a fine wine, too : and which, over the years at @ClevelandParkWineSpirits in Cleveland Park, Northwest, Washington D.C., 20008, we have sold many cases working here with Jeremy Sutton of Kysela Pere Et Fils Et Fille. Thank you all for helping us, this was a fine tasting. I will include pictures in the very next blog I post on the dry red liter bottles that we also sell of the Zweigelt.

Being an artist I take these with my artists' eyes and want to bring a new dimension to what already exists out there in our world of wine : I want the color of the wine, the clarity, the brilliance, the reflectiveness, the transparency or opaqueness to add to our desire to want to go out and buy a bottle and take it home and drink it sharing it with family or friends, or order it in a restaurant and share it there with family or friends.

I like to take pictures of the owners and winemakers through the color of the wines that they pay to be made, or make themselves, or both : as , to me, to two or inextricable.

I take lots of liberty and artistic license with the pictures I take as I want them to be natural and relaxed and so the angles that I snap away at are often looking up and not knowing exactly what I might get, but trusting in both my instinct, the camera I use, or the Kindle Fire, too now, and hoping for the best, trusting that something of interest will often result as I have also had a lot of practice at this.

In the News

When you think American wines, your taste buds might expect something from Napa or Sonoma, but it might be time to raise a glass to Texas. Manuel Bojorquez reports on winemakers in the Lone Star State.

About Me

Spent the first half of my life overseas with my family and the second half with my wife building our family together here in the United States. ALSO : I consider myself a wine-enabler and someone that , as an artist , always likes to " add to the equation " instead of duplicating it. I love to share my passion for both art and wine and consider the two to be related and indispensable for me in living my life fully and creatively where I am not afraid to stand alone if need be.
At this stage in my life now I am launching into a new directions and have two new pursuits to help me do this : 1) I am now consulting people on the business, love and pursuit of wine both on a private and a public/ business level and so have established my new blog site for that called : chatwinebusinesssavy.blogspot.com to reach out to you , as well as 2) a " new " wine business venture importing the wines of Brazil to the United States called BRALVIN Brazilian Wine & Alcohol at : anthony@bralvin.com as well as : www.bralvin.com. Cheers,AAQ